August 23, 2009
Here and There
Because Global Injustice never rests, I work on Sundays.
So no proper post.
I did, however, get a sarcastic letter published in The Observer today:
Christopher Hitchens writes (My Week): “If she had been born in Russia in 1974, Ms Abram would now be living in a country that featured crony capitalism, a bent and wobbly stock exchange, a servile media, grotesque income inequality, a huge prison population, a severe Aids epidemic, endless trouble with rebellious peripheral neighbours and a healthcare system that was random and rationed by price. But I feel quite sure that this is not what she intended to convey.”
Perhaps not. But then, if one merely strikes “a severe Aids epidemic”, and replaces the words “peripheral neighbours” with “Middle Eastern conquests”, that is a remarkably apt description of the country Ms Abram is now living in, given that she was born in the USA. Funny old world, isn’t it?
Paul Sagar
London E1
Which just goes to show that if you don’t contextualise then you cannot analyse.
In other soon-to-be-closed-down-newspaper-news, Nick Cohen wrote a suspiciously sensible looking column, and citied Philip Hammond MP and his shameful attitude to the perpetuation of undeserved inequality and social immobility.
Can’t think how the hacks at the Grauniad could possibly have heard of the website Interns Anonymous.
